What does it tell you when expert after expert tries to discredit the results of Gordie Howe’s stem cell treatment while his son Dr. Murray Howe, chairman of Toledo Hospital’s department of radiology, credits the stem cells for his recovery?

Dr. Murray Howe is the chairman of Toledo Hospital’s department of radiology.

What does it tell you when expert after expert claim his recovery and improvements are insignificant…while simultaneously attributing his recovery and improvements to everything except the stem cells he received?

What does it tell you when expert after expert discredits the anecdotal evidence of Gordie Howe’s recovery as “merely anecdotal” while it is actually one mere drop in an ocean of tens of thousands per year who have improved from cancer with cellular therapies over the last 59 years and tens of thousands who have improved over the past 12-14 years from non-cancer conditions?

And what is the value of this huge array of empirical and anecdotal evidence?

Gordie Howe Recovers From Stroke with Stem Cells

There are many types of evidence, not just trials or anecdotal. Too often we reduce the evidential options to either clinical trials or anecdote. Wrong. That’s 5 blind men describing an elephant all over again. We must take into account ALL of the different types of evidence and only THEN we can make a judgment based on the cumulative evidential data.

Anecdotal Evidence – Peyton Manning, Kobe Bryant, Rafael Nadar, Bartolo Colon…athletes from major sports organizations all over the world are embracing and anecdotally illustrating the safety and efficacy of cellular therapies

Testimonial Evidence – Youtube is chock full of testimonies of athletes and patients who are benefiting from cellular therapies and via testimonial, illustrating the safety and efficacy of cellular therapies

Analogical Evidence – 59 years and thousands of trials and studies are analogously illustrating the safety and efficacy of cellular therapies

Clinical Trial evidence – Even though it may be the wrong process to evaluate cellular therapies, the vast majority of over 2,400 clinical trials are scientifically and empirically illustrating the safety and efficacy of cellular therapies

Miracle results? No. This is par for the course results from real expectations based on the multitude of evidence types collected over the past six decades for cellular therapies. The combined patchwork of all of the data from all of these evidences paints a very compelling conclusion.

Are cellular therapies safe and effective? All of the evidences seem to say so. Not just the anecdotal evidence;
anecdotal,
statistical,
testimonial,
analogical
and clinical trial evidences.

1. Last week I saw someone with no education on stem cells stating that stem cells should be used only as a last resort.

The presentation of stem cell therapies as a last resort is tragic. Unfortunately, most people do come to me asking for information as a last resort. They have been advised by their friends, family, medical professionals and media that they should try everything else and not try stem cells. When all else fails and they finally approach me, “I’ve tried everything,” is a common explanation. Again, tragic. In many cases, the sooner stem cells are used, the faster patients can improve their quality of life, relieve their suffering and mediate their symptoms.

The CEO of a well known stem cell company made this analogy: “Most people renovate their homes just before selling them. What a missed opportunity! If they renovated them earlier they would derive years of pleasure from the renovation instead of fixing things up for the next owner.” But what if you used stem cell therapies to improve your health and fix your body BEFORE you exhausted all other resources, money, energy, your immune system and your health? What a concept.

2. A new study is investigating the question: Is stem cell therapy less effective in older patients with chronic diseases?

Let’s over-simplify…
When was the last time a piece of equipment in your car failed and another one didn’t fail soon after. This is because they are dependent upon each other for optimum efficiency. The older the patient and the more advanced their disease, the odds are, the more there are other organs and systems being taxed beyond their capabilities. And many people believe one pill will fix their disease but it’s far from true. We must change the one pill for one one disease, one size fits all, magic cure belief which is rampant in the USA. There is no evidence to support it.

Look at it another way. Consider your body a battleground and the disease is the enemy. The surest way to fight the enemy is to send wave after wave of soldiers (stem cells) into battle. But many of the same issues in battle restrict maximizing the success of your therapy. If you cut off the supply routes to the soldiers carrying food and ammunition (a weakened or restricted circulatory system), your soldiers’ ability to move to the battle will be ineffective. If you wipe out their communications (cytokines/messenger cells), your soldiers won’t know where to go or what is needed to fight.

Time is always against us. The longer we wait, the more our resources will be depleted and our other organs and systems will be taxed, both to support the failing areas and due to the natural deterioration associated with aging. “Aging and chronic diseases including CVD and diabetes substantially affect stem/progenitor cells of adult organism. Such conditions could restrict the effectiveness of autologous cell therapy in aged patients with CAD, lower limb ischemia, T2DM and other chronic pathologies, although these patients are some of the most obvious candidates for cell therapy.”

It is my hope that people do real research or talk to someone who has so they can make an educated decision about reclaiming their health. There is a great deal of misinformation out there and many people are trying to sabotage the real info and data getting to those whom need it most. Let’s work together to get rid of misinformation and not perpetuate the confusion which may lead to unnecessary suffering. DON’T WAIT.

Lori Mills’ story is now mainstream and may affect millions of people in years to come. You may have seen her in the dictionary under “persistence” or next to the quote: “be the change you want to see in the world.” Certainly she is a very lucky woman. Or maybe it’s simpler than that. Maybe she is simply a mother and a wife who wants to live her life as best as she can without simultaneously carrying the burden of a debilitating illness.

Lori has chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy or CIDP and she was denied insurance coverage by Blue Cross Blue Shield in the Summer of 2014. One week ago, believe it or not, they reversed their decision. This is a huge victory for Lori in the battle with Blue Cross Blue Shield. This is also the first of many skirmishes in her war on CIDP and a minor victory for those that follow her. Here’s how it breaks down:

Be excited for Lori as she now has a chance at a better life. She has defeated the one thing standing in her way of getting treated.

Don’t expect insurance companies to start caving tomorrow as BCBS has already stated with conviction that this is not to be seen as a precedent.

The treatment she is approved for is a clinical trial with exclusionary criteria, not from a treatment center so this is not available to the general public.

I reached out to Lori today and both she and her friends responded with grace and respect:

Hi Lori,
I’m following your story with great interest. I am a 10 year stem cell educator and while Blue Cross is clear in stating that this shouldn’t be considered precedent setting I just wanted to personally thank you for your hard work to get the doors open just a little bit more for those people who are suffering needlessly with conventional drug and treatment protocols which do not work for them. Kudos to you and yours! Wishing you the best,
David

We wish her great success and hope to do a follow up on her progress at the end of her trial.

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I’d like to share something with you. Look at the image below. It jumped out at me.
A simple statement. “I’m a CIDP Fighter.”
We can all understand what it means to fight a single adversary.
With awareness and education we can learn what it means to fight an invisible neurological illness like CIDP.
And that should be enough. For anyone. But it isn’t.

Today’s patients seek answers, seek cures, seek stem cell therapies…
but they are not just fighting their conditions…
they often are simultaneously fighting the medical establishment, fighting insurance companies, fighting ignorance and fighting resistance.
It should not be this hard. We should do more to make it easier for patients to get the treatments they need. We must do more.

Science has poo-pooed the effect of environmental toxins for years citing that the miniscule concentrations of toxins couldn’t possibly cause harm to the human body. Everything from GMOs to toxins in vaccines were ignored based on this premise. New science reveals though that the environment can not only effect the human body but it can change DNA and contribute to diseases. Now that there’s proof, it’s time to get the crap out of our lives. -David Granovsky HOW ENVIRONMENT CONTRIBUTES TO SEVERAL HUMAN DISEASES National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) Using a new imaging technique, researchers have found that the biological machinery that builds DNA can insert molecules into the DNA strand that are damaged as a result of environmental exposures. These damaged molecules trigger cell death that produces some human diseases, according to the researchers. The work provides a possible explanation for how one type of DNA damage may lead to cancer, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular and lung disease, and Alzheimer’s disease… Samuel Wilson, M.D., senior NIEHS researcher on the team, explained that the damage is caused by oxidative stress, or the generation of free oxygen molecules, in response to environmental factors, such as ultraviolet exposure, diet, and chemical compounds in paints, plastics, and other consumer products… “When one of these oxidized nucleotides is placed into the DNA strand, it can’t pair with the opposing nucleotide as usual, which leaves a gap in the DNA,” Wilson said. “Until this paper, no one had actually seen how the polymerase did it or understood the downstream implications.” http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/newsroom/releases/2014/november25/index.cfmhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141125101703.htm

Hue Hospital Succeeds in Treating Cancer with Stem Cell

Saigon – Doctors of Hue Central Hospital have used stem cell transplantation to successfully treat a cancer patient of the last stage. The Hue Central Hospital announced on June 26 that its doctors have cured Le Thi Sau, 52, who was suffering ovarian cancer in the last stage, with stem cell transplant. The operation is the success of the scientific project “Using stem cell in breast cancer and cervical cancer” managed by Professor Nguyen Duy Thang, deputy head of the hospital. Adult stem cells have been used to treat certain cancers through bone marrow transplants. In this therapy, the stem cells that give rise to the different blood cells in the body are transplanted into the bone marrow of the patient, where they regenerate the blood. The project was given green light to carry out in the Hue Central Hospital by the Ministry of Science and Technology. Professor Nguyen Duy Thang said the success of this method will pave the way for next operations on breast and ovarian cancer patients. In the time ahead, the hospital continues to treat two other cancer female patients with the stem cell treatment. It is hoped that the treatment will save many cancer patients. (www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn June 27)

It May Take Guts to Cure Diabetes -Human GI Cells Retrained to Produce Insulin

Imagine taking cells from your gastrointestinal tract and then switching off one gene, the FOXO1 gene, and then ending up with insulin producing cells. From gut cell to diabetes fighter in one easy gene switch-off. Scientists did this successfully in 2012 in mice and recently in humans. What does the FOXO1 say? ‘Here’s more insulin!’ Awesome.

The next step is where it gets…awkward. I’d like this information to generate a gene therapy protocol or to improve success rates in stem cell/Diabetes treatment protocols, etc. But that’s not the way our system works. The next step is to find a drug that inhibits the FOXO1 gene so it “…could retrain cells inside a person’s GI tract to produce insulin…” Unfortunately, this drug will also have side effects as all drugs do which will create other symptoms requiring other drugs to mitigate. And so it goes.

When will US Diabetes patients be able to benefit from a medical protocol based on this discovery? An educated guess puts it at:
7-10 years for clinical trials and drug development for a name brand Pharma product and then 10-15 years for the drug patent to open up to an affordable generic.
Sorry Diabetes patients.

New York, NY (June 30, 2014) “By switching off a single gene, scientists at Columbia University’s Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center have converted human gastrointestinal cells into insulin-producing cells, demonstrating in principle that a drug could retrain cells inside a person’s GI tract to produce insulin…The Columbia researchers were able to teach human gut cells to make insulin in response to physiological circumstances by deactivating the cells’ FOXO1 gene.”

The first stem cell generated windpipe was implanted in 2008.
Six long years later, the technique has been improved significantly and has hit main stream media.

“Macchiarini’s team began by collecting stem cells from Beyene’s bone marrow. Those cells were mixed with special growth factors and then poured onto a scaffold made from plastic — in fact, the very same plastic that is used to make soda bottles — which had been made to mimic the shape of a real windpipe. In just a matter of days, the scaffold began to transform into an actual functioning windpipe.”

Some attack those pushing the boundaries, citing that the surgery is experimental and unproven. But the Dr can’t stand by as patients die when he can do something about it and can’t ignore their pleas for a chance at the hope of recovery. This is cutting edge of medicine and there are thousands of clinical trials and studies and 10s to 100s of thousands of patients treated, most outside of the US. There are no guarantees. There are always risks, even with rigorously tested pharmaceutical drugs and treatment protocols that have been used for decades. But for chronic and terminal patients who are given no chance for recovery, experimental sounds like a pretty great option.

Historically, new treatments have always been met with resistance.

“Tom Starzl, when he started doing liver transplants, the first seven, eight, nine patients all died. Everybody said he was nuts, OK? Christian Barnard, when he started doing heart transplants, everyone threw rocks at him. This is how we’re going to treat diseases in the future and this is the start of it.”

Anything which pushes the envelop of contemporary knowledge will be rejected by those clinging to traditional concepts…but without pioneering doctors and even more pioneering patients, willing to take risks, medical protocols can not advance. I salute the doctor and the patients who are the ground-breaking pioneers in the new land of regenerative medicine. And what can their mutual risk do for the patient and millions to follow?

“One of Macchiarini’s most promising success stories is Claudia Castillo, a Spanish mother who is doing so well six years after her transplant that an increasing number of Macchiarini’s colleagues are beginning to see him in a new light.”

Scientists “used these souped-up cells to treat In mice afflicted with pancreatic tumors. Pancreatic cancer is an indiscriminate killer, since by the time it causes any symptoms, it is usually so advanced, that there is little to be done in order to treat it. Thus new strategies to treat this type of cancer are eagerly being sought. Systemic administration of IL-15-expressing MSCs significantly inhibited tumor growth and prolonged the survival of tumor-bearing mice. The tumors of these mice showed extensive cell death, and other types of immune cells known to fight tumor cells (NK and T cells) had also accumulated around the tumor. Other experiments confirmed that the injected MSCs did indeed migrate toward the tumors and secrete IL-15 at the site of the tumors…Interestingly, those mice that were cured from the pancreatic tumors, appeared to have a kind of resistance of these tumors. Namely, when Fan and his colleagues tried to reintroduce the same tumor cells back into the cured mice, the tumor cells would not grow. Thus the engineered MSCs not only tuned the immune system against the tumor, but they effectively vaccinated the mice against it as well.”

After over 15 years of main stream research around the world (with 50 years of bone marrow/stem cell transplant research and therapies), most people still believe there are only a few sources for stem cells; embryonic, adult and induced pluripotent.

Each stem cell source appears to have unique qualities and characteristics which scientists are barely beginning to fully understand. The blood or bone marrow have what are called “hematopoietic stem cells.”

“A hematopoietic stem cell is a cell isolated from the blood or bone marrow that can renew itself, can differentiate to a variety of specialized cells, can mobilize out of the bone marrow into circulating blood…” via

As if hematopoietic stem cells weren’t awesome enough due to their ability to produce cells of the blood and the immune system and destroy unneeded cells, they have an additional benefit which may be even more impressive. Hematopoietic stem cells introduced into the patient’s body also protects against myeloproliferative neoplasia.

Myeloproliferative neoplasm is “a type of disease in which the bone marrow makes too many red blood cells, platelets, or certain white blood cells. Myeloproliferative neoplasms usually get worse over time as the number of extra cells build up in the blood and/or bone marrow. This may cause bleeding problems, anemia, infection, fatigue, or other signs and symptoms. Certain myeloproliferative neoplasms may become acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Myeloproliferative neoplasms include chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML), polycythemia vera, primary myelofibrosis, essential thrombocythemia, chronic neutrophilic leukemia, and chronic eosinophilic leukemia. Also called chronic myeloproliferative neoplasm.” via​

As research continues, we learn more and more about the abilities of stem cells and their role as one of the most important healing systems in the human body.

“The protective microenvironment of the hematopoietic stem cell niche, which produces cells of the blood and the immune system, also protects against myeloproliferative neoplasia. Protecting this microenvironment, or niche, has thus emerged as a new route for the treatment of these diseases, for which there is currently no fully effective treatment…”

“A healthy and balanced diet, as well as probiotics, have been known to be helpful in preserving gastrointestinal health for quite a long time. But it is only recently that the underlying mechanisms have become somewhat clearer. A rapidly increasing body of knowledge promises to further clarify the effects of our daily food on the gut microbiota and to indicate more targeted applications of probiotics in the near future. This was one of the topics presented at the Gut Microbiota for Health World Summit in Miami, FL, USA. On March 8-9, 2014, internationally leading experts discussed the latest advances in gut microbiota research and its impact on health.” -‘Feeding gut microbiota: Nutrition, probiotics key factors for digestive health.’ ScienceDaily

We’ve all heard of probiotics and their dietary benefits. Now let’s use that knowledge and put it to good use when it comes to stem cell transplantation. According to the article we posted earlier, increased gut microbiota can increase the success and survival rate of patients post transplant. Now here’s the big question… ‘how do we increase these helpful suckers early and get them working ASAP?!’ Well, you probably guessed it– eating foods rich in probiotics (such as yogurt) is one way to do this! Click the links and find out why you should be feeding the little helpers alive in your gut and how to increase their diversity– and increase your chances of success!!